comical

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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comical (ˈkɒmɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	causing laughter
2.	ludicrous; laughable

'comically

—*adv*

'comicalness

—n

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comical

mid-15c., "comic," from comic + -al (1). Meaning "funny" is from 1680s.

Example sentences

Comical yet sad that the crisis is so absurd that such jokes can be made.

It is a character that hauntingly emerges out of a disarmingly comical film.

Some of the debris and damage left by the tsunami is almost comical.

The held bodies tend to be more expressive and sometimes even comical.

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